Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu agreed to a ceasefire for halting the eight-day Israeli Gaza operation Wednesday night, Nov. 21, after President Barack Obama personally pledged to start deploying US troops in Egyptian Sinai next week, DEBKAfile reports. The conversation, which finally tipped the scales for a ceasefire, took place on a secure line Wednesday morning, just hours before it was announced in Cairo.

Clinton was sympathetic to this argument. Soon after, President Obama was on the phone to Netanyahu with an assurance that US troops would be in place in Sinai next week, after he had obtained President Morsis consent for them to go into immediate action against Iranian smuggling networks. Netanyahu responded by agreeing to a ceasefire being announced in Cairo that night by Clinton and the Egyptian foreign minister, and to holding back the thousands of Israeli reservists on standby on the Gaza border. DEBKAfiles military sources report that the first air transports carrying US special forces are due to land at Sharm el Sheikh military airfield in southern Sinai in the next 48 hours and go into action against the arms smugglers without delay.

Last I checked Sharm el Sheikh is on the other end of Sinai from Gaza. Unless us troops were to deploy to Israeli territory there isn’t much of a mission for the US troops (except to get shot at by Hamas).

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posted on 11/23/2012 1:59:37 PM PST
by Tallguy
(Hunkered down in Pennsylvania.)

US troops have been in Sinai supposedly to prevent violations of the peace, since the 1970’s. It seems they just weren’t doing the job adequately is all, to allow the reported 10,000+ missiles into terrorist hands on Isr’s borders?

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Jerusalem from Bangkok Tuesday, she tried assuring Netanyahu that President Obama had decided to accelerate the construction of an elaborate US system of electronic security fences along the Suez Canal and northern Sinai. It would also cork up the Philadelphi route through which arms are smuggled into the Gaza Strip.

US troops have been in Sinai supposedly to prevent violations of the peace, since the 1970s. It seems they just werent doing the job adequately is all, to allow the reported 10,000+ missiles into terrorist hands on Isrs borders? Always under UN do nothing guidelines.

US troops have been in the Sinai for decades. DH served there for six months back in the 90’s and I still have the t-shirt. MFO (Multi-National Force Observers) is the official name but the US runs the operation. The ROE’s are stupid, you have to be shot at and hit before you can return fire. If Israel and Egypt ever get into it those guys will be the first casualties. They are a flipping speed bump. Albet a very nasty speed bump with major teeth.

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posted on 11/23/2012 2:29:13 PM PST
by Harmless Teddy Bear
(Fate plays chess and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along)

Nor breathe incorrectly, pick their nose, speak unkindly about the enemy, forbidden to identify an enemy, ..We know zero hates America and in part that's because our American military is the toughest and best and in order for him to pull off a coup, the military must be neutered.

THAT cat's out of the bag with the murders of Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.

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posted on 11/23/2012 2:35:07 PM PST
by knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)

Because the US troops deployed in the Sinai will be a peace keeping force evenmtually authorized by a UN resolution. The US deployment will not be in support of Israel, the deployment may be against Israel for “humanitarian reasons” ...protecting innocent civilians in GAZA.( sic)

Such a deployment would not be popular with America. Thus it is not in the news.

I am also skeptical. If this is indeed true, it is a terrible mustake. Our troops will be nothing but sitting ducks.
I can see obama wanting to do this just for that reason, but I can’t see Netanyahu going along with it. This sounds more like something that might have been cooked up with Egypt, not Israel.

Born in Ireland, and wife to Cass Sunstein, she currently is a Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and runs the Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights as Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs on the Staff of the National Security Council.

Will NATO threaten to obliterate Israel as it did Libya? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes it might, if Bibi invades GAZA. I hope he does. This showdown must happen and it must happen before Obama consolidates his fascists in NATO and elsewhere.

Bibi needs to push every Palestinian into Egypt, and secure Gaza and settle it with Israelis. And he needs to rattle his nuclear option. And he needs to send Obama packing. The lives of our US troops should not be at risk for the sake of Obama’s anti Israel grift, which is perhaps the greatest travesty.And we should not be helping the Russians to increase their influence in the region as is happening now.

Treason is still ongoing and it will continue for 4 more yeras unless Joe Biden becomes president.

Israel didn’t ask. Obama/Clinton shoved them down their throat. Israel was ready, willing and able to finish the job themselves with ground troops, but our government had to protect the precious Palestinian Koranimals.

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posted on 11/25/2012 7:53:05 AM PST
by dervish
(either the vote was corrupt or the electorate is)

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